The Hills

With only two fashion models to support her, Lauren ran out of gas, referring to one of her outfits as "there's this." That sure makes us want to buy it.

As we reported earlier, episodes will center around bombshell Katherine Kennedy (above) and her friends' extensive charity work. Of course it'll all devolve into party, party, cat fight, bitch, bitch, bitch faster than you can say "I did not sleep with that woman." And there's more!

Name calling is always a good start to mending neighbor relations.

Even the mere thought of Spencer Pratt posing nude was enough to kill Playgirl.

Rumors floated around the Internet last week Pratt was considering an offer to pose for the mag. It took a few days, but sure enough Playgirl announced yesterday they were shutting down the mag and only focusing on their web site.

Coincidence?

TMZ has learned LC is giving up the surfboard she won at this year's Teen Choice Awards for living her life on TV to someone a lot more deserving -- a 13-year-old Leukemia patient who was up for the $100,000 Do Something Award and lost.

Conrad met the kid, Pat Pedraja, at a Teen Choice pre-party Saturday where she presented him with $10,000 check from Do Something for his work recruiting bone marrow donors from minorities across the country.

We hear she personally slipped him an iPod Touch she filled with her favorite music. It ain't $100,000 bucks -- but we're working with a reality TV budget here.

While Heidi Montag was at Kitson selling her clothes like hot cakes, L.C.'s line was hanging on the clearance rack. Then LC happened to walk by.

It looks like LC's fashion designing career could be as fake as "The Hills"!

Sources close to the Lauren Conrad line tell us LC's claim that she's involved in every step of the design process is overstated. We're told, "You never see her picking out fabrics, or in the cutting room, or even at the drawing board. She's not the designer, the only step she's involved in is the promotion."

We're also told the clothing line mainly is fashioned by Sherri Roozrak-Wood, a former designer for Tart. And surprise! LC's clothes look an awful lot like some of the old Tart designs.

Our spies were at Kress nightclub last week, and they tell us they overheard LC tell an aspiring designer that she wished she knew how to sketch. Cuts you up!

We talked to LC about the claims made, and she tells us, "These claims are ridiculous. Anyone who knows me knows how important designing is to me and how much time and devotion I put into my own line. I am and always have been the sole designer of the Lauren Conrad Collection."

We didn't believe it when we saw the video of the couple we love to hate as they went house shopping yesterday in the Bu. They looked at two homes: the aforementioned $12 mil beach house (also for rent for $90k a month) and a 10,000 sq. ft. estate with an asking price of more than $15 mil.

So we thought it was a big publicity stunt, until we called the realtor who showed the property. Sandro Dazzan says they're "serious buyers," although he doesn't think they'll pull the trigger right away. Dazzan stunned us when he said they can afford the $12 million beach house right now, but that they're "at least six months" out from being able to afford the bigger house.

Hey Audrina, Frodo wants his foot back.

Audrina Patridge and Lauren Conrad took these filthy pics in a LifeStyles photo booth at a beach house in Malibu -- where Audrina could have used some sort of foot rubber to keep from spreadin' the nasty.

Paging Tinactin!